First the specifics. EB 1.1, clean install from 1.5, no other mods. I kept starting campaigns in 1.2 but they would eventually degrade and be shown as 1.1 and the general hiring system would fall apart, everyone would be interlopers, so I just reinstalled 1.1, seemingly fixing this problem. Thats not what this is about though, this is just 1.1 campaign as rome.
Of say the last 5 campaigns i've had in eb I never actually finished one. 2 hard drive crashes, 1 abandoned after upgrade to 1.2, and 2 ctd full losses. As a result I keep multiple saves spread out over multiple turns. This did not help this time though, as everytime i hit a certain turn id get ctd when sweboz started moving.
Since ive done rome before i thought id go a different direction and invade carthage first, leaving the sweboz unscathed. I thought a recent city i reconquered over in morroco revolting caused the crash, so i went back a few turns and didn't capture it. Crash continued so i read up on the forums and found out sweboz spawning too many markers. So i installed all the fixes, nothing worked. I reinstalled rome, the patches, and eb at least 3 times, tried destroying possible buggy buildings, tried declaring war on sweboz, but nothing worked.
Finally, the solution SOO FAR, as I am 2 turns past the crash point now, was a hasty invasion of sweboz land and captureing one of their cities quickly.
I don't normally post, but i figure this solution was weird enough that it might be useful in some way.
Save right before the crash is here-
http://ul.to/pdi80b
heres a turn after i fixed it-
http://ul.to/4q5679
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